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Every grand duke after Leopold resided in Florence. Grand Duke Leopold II agreed to ratify a liberal constitution in 1848. He was briefly deposed by a provisional government in 1849, but restored to power the same year by Austrian troops. The government was finally dissolved upon its annexation to the United Provinces of Central Italy in 1859. [7]
Grand Duchy of Tuscany; Hundred Days; Invasion of Algiers (1775) Italian campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars; Joseph Radetzky von Radetz; Karl II, Prince of Isenburg-Birstein; Klemens von Metternich; Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany; List of Italian flags; List of heads of state and government who have been in exile; List of ships ...
Cross of Saint Stephen. Galley of the Order of Saint Stephen (1611 celebrating drawing). Flag of the galleys of the Order of Saint Stephen, 1562-end of XVIII century. The order was founded by Cosimo I de' Medici, [5] first Grand Duke of Tuscany, with the approbation of Pope Pius IV on 1 October 1561. [2]
The title of Grand Duke, was in fact the second title of recognition within the Tuscan politics given by a Pope to the Medici family, the first being that of Duke of the Florentine Republic, created by Pope Clement VII in 1532. [3] [4] The official residence of the Grand Dukes was the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, bought by the Medici in 1549. [5]
The Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1569–1860, part of Italy afterwards). The term "grand duchy" is of relatively late invention, used at first in Western Europe in 1569 in the case of Tuscany, to denote either territories of a particularly mighty duke or territories of significant importance in political, economical or military matters without being of sufficient size or importance to be recognized ...
The Grand Duke, following the pressure of the Tuscan patriots, then adopted the tricolour flag also as a state banner and as a military banner for the troops sent to help Charles Albert of Piedmont-Sardinia. [74] [77] Similar measures were adopted by the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza and by the Duchy of Modena and Reggio. [78]
Flag of the Italian ethnic minority [1] in Yugoslavia: An Italian tricolour with a red star in the center. 1992– Flag of Italians of Croatia: An Italian tricolour. 1950–1960 Flag of the Trust Territory of Somaliland: An Italian tricolour. 1946–2003 Flag of Italy: An Italian tricolour. 2003–2006 Flag of Italy: An Italian tricolour. 2006 ...
When Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1670–1723) received the "right to royal rank" from Vienna, he added arches and a globe to the top of the grand ducal crown, as these were the typical elements of a royal crown. The new status of the Grand Duchy included among other things a change of style from Altezza Serenissima to Altezza Reale.